MrSusan
New member
Hi all,
I'm hoping that someone on here will be able to help me identify this boat. I am her current owner and she was given to me by a friend who was emigrating to New Zealand about 6 or 7 years ago. He bought her a few years before that with the idea of restoring her but unfortunately he never managed to realise this ambition. In fact she sat in the corner of a field for years with no cover, slowly deteriorating.
When I took her on, I also had grand ideas about restoring her but then I got married and had a child, etc.. the usual story. However, since she has been in my posession, I have kept her under cover in a big barn.
I have realised that I'm never going to have the time/money to restore her and am looking to find someone to take her off my hands, who will hopefully get her back in the water.
She is around 30ft LOA, named "Susan". Currently located near to the Helford River in Cornwall.
There have been various stories about her passed on through various owners: She might have been a dunkirk little ship, she was the fastest boat on the Helford river, she used to have 2 engines, etc.. etc.. however not much actual information managed to filter through, so I have no idea where or when she was built, what her original engine would have been, things like that.
If anyone is able to shed any light on this I'd be very grateful. And if you're interested in taking her on as a restoration project let me know!
Thanks,
John.
I'm hoping that someone on here will be able to help me identify this boat. I am her current owner and she was given to me by a friend who was emigrating to New Zealand about 6 or 7 years ago. He bought her a few years before that with the idea of restoring her but unfortunately he never managed to realise this ambition. In fact she sat in the corner of a field for years with no cover, slowly deteriorating.
When I took her on, I also had grand ideas about restoring her but then I got married and had a child, etc.. the usual story. However, since she has been in my posession, I have kept her under cover in a big barn.
I have realised that I'm never going to have the time/money to restore her and am looking to find someone to take her off my hands, who will hopefully get her back in the water.
She is around 30ft LOA, named "Susan". Currently located near to the Helford River in Cornwall.
There have been various stories about her passed on through various owners: She might have been a dunkirk little ship, she was the fastest boat on the Helford river, she used to have 2 engines, etc.. etc.. however not much actual information managed to filter through, so I have no idea where or when she was built, what her original engine would have been, things like that.
If anyone is able to shed any light on this I'd be very grateful. And if you're interested in taking her on as a restoration project let me know!
Thanks,
John.